I have only been on it for one course, however I a...

I have only been on it for one course, however I am iffy about certain things. So far, I have a great teacher who explains the content to me very well (through texts and emails), however trying to read the information in the modules is like trying to disable a bomb; it takes me hours on end to figure out what the text is trying to explain to me, and even then, it seems that everything on the practice exams for each chapter in each module is contradictory to what I read. To expand the simile, I only have so much time in my life to do the work on top of my IB classes and AP Euro. Most of the time, I have to even go as far as rerouting my work agenda because one assignment takes almost an entire day for me. As I'll repeat, I have a very good teacher for my course who explains everything in the course that stumps me, but the amount of effort and time it sucks out of my life is way too much to balance with the rest of my daily activities and schoolwork.
To me, the website in general seems like a labyrinth of random information; it is a giant concoction of seemingly disheveled and highly perplexing tabs. There are many critical sources which I heavily rely on such as the gradebook which I only found near the END OF MY COURSE because the teacher had to explain to me how to find it. Even then, I still thought the process of accessing it was too convoluted to figure out on my own. Such a website like this substantially requires a user-friendly system that is easy to get around, and the only thing I should have to learn and figure out on my own is the content of the courses themselves. In fact, if it is too difficult to make the process of maneuvering through this rough storm - of an educational website - easier, than you should at least present us with a separate course that teaches us how to get around on it. We, as the students and parents of students on FLVS, shouldn't have to struggle to figure out the kinks of the website in the first place.
The time limits in my course (not sure if this is universal) are utterly stern. They are also uncompromising because they don't change for seemlingly ANY SITUATION, sometimes even when the client has no time to get any work accomplished. As of this publishing, my teacher - of whom I promptly respect as a person and an educator - has told me they would shut down the entire course until I scheduled a DBA call with him, and I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED THE MODULE YET. Still having to learn lots of new information, I am dreading the day of the call, which I predict will not end well as a result of my poor retention of the ideas that are horribly explained through the text in each module. Another thing that really gets my goat is how ridiculous some of the assignments are. For some unknown reason, the administrators find it funny to make the amount of questions in multiple-choice assignments GREATER IN NUMBER WHEN THEY CONTAIN FRQs. So when I fail one of these, not only am I having to do over more multiple choice questions, I also have to do over entire paragraphs of writing (the questions DO CHANGE, but that is not my main point). In fact, I think combining 3 short FRQs in a MULTIPLE CHOICE test is stupid because no AP test does such a thing. Multiple choice questions SHOULD STICK TO STIMULUS QUESTIONS, SINGLE-RESPONSE, AND MULTI-RESPONSE, AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT AP FORMATS ON THEIR MULTIPLE CHOICES. I understand it is important to cover doing FRQ questions, and this course does indeed explain how to do these questions far better than anyone else has. But the combination of both forms is counter-productive, taking up an abnormal amount of time. In inspiration. An idea to consider: MAKE THE TWO THINGS SEPARATE ASSIGNMENTS!
To the people that are trying to take an online class, I do not recommend that you start with FLVS, for its organization of sources makes it abysmally confusing. The wording of certain phrases and sentences are confusing and seem to contradict what is on the tests, which makes me render most of my time. On top of that, the assignments take way too long to complete.